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Summer 1987 • Vol. IX No. 3 • Poetry |

1955

I sat at the stern of the gray boat
      my father guided
    off the muscle of the Chattahoochee
     and over bream beds and fern-choked water.

      I took him at his word:
    fish draw to silence;
     and I watched where he pointed
my next cast

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